All articles tagged with #brain activity
A study led by Rutgers University recorded women orgasming inside MRI machines to understand brain activity during climax, revealing insights into pleasure and potential applications for those with orgasm difficulties.
A groundbreaking genetic study suggests that reducing baseline brain activity by targeting the Homer1 gene could offer a new approach to treating ADHD and other neurodevelopmental disorders, shifting focus from stimulating to calming neural activity for improved attention.
A 2022 study unexpectedly recorded brain activity during a patient's death, revealing that the brain may remain active and exhibit memory-like waves, such as gamma oscillations, suggesting that our lives might indeed flash before our eyes as we die, although findings are preliminary and based on a single case.
Research shows that individuals with visual snow syndrome experience heightened face pareidolia, seeing faces in random patterns more frequently due to hyperexcitability in the visual cortex, which amplifies false perceptual signals and offers insights into how the brain interprets visual information.
New research shows that ADHD drugs like Adderall and Ritalin do not directly improve attention but instead increase brain arousal and the feeling of reward, making tasks seem more interesting and easier to focus on. The drugs primarily affect brain regions related to wakefulness and motivation, and their effectiveness can be influenced by sleep quality. This challenges previous beliefs about how these medications work and suggests a need to reevaluate their role in treating ADHD.
Research shows that intermittent energy restriction not only leads to weight loss but also causes coordinated changes in brain activity and gut microbiome, suggesting a complex interaction that may influence long-term weight management and obesity-related health issues.
A study reveals that reducing background brain activity by targeting the Homer1 gene can improve focus, suggesting a new approach for treating ADHD by calming neural noise rather than stimulating brain circuits, with potential implications for other neurodevelopmental disorders.
Recent research indicates that up to 40% of fMRI signals may not accurately reflect actual brain activity, highlighting significant issues with signal interpretation, noise, and the reliability of fMRI as a tool for understanding neural processes.
A new brain decoding technique called mind captioning can generate accurate, structured text descriptions of what a person sees or recalls by translating semantic brain activity into language without relying on traditional language areas, opening new possibilities for nonverbal communication and understanding mental content.
A study finds that shyness is linked to reduced spontaneous activity in the cerebellum, with this relationship being partly mediated by the Behavioral Inhibition System, highlighting the neural and motivational factors underlying shy behavior.
A new non-invasive AI technique called 'mind captioning' can translate brain activity into detailed descriptive sentences, revealing how the brain interprets visual information and potentially aiding those with language impairments.
The world's largest dream database, pooling over 2,600 sleep recordings from 505 people, reveals that dreams occur across all sleep stages and can be predicted from brain waves with up to 70% accuracy, offering new insights into consciousness and the sleeping brain.
Paradoxical insomnia is a condition where individuals believe they haven't slept despite evidence from sleep studies showing they have, highlighting complexities in sleep perception and brain activity during sleep. Recent research suggests that altered states of consciousness and brain activity may explain this discrepancy, and therapies like CBT-I can help manage it.
A study from UNSW Sydney provides strong evidence that hearing voices in schizophrenia may be due to the brain's failure to recognize its own inner speech, with potential implications for early diagnosis and treatment of psychosis.
A study suggests that auditory hallucinations in schizophrenia may result from the brain misreading its own inner speech due to disrupted prediction mechanisms, with EEG evidence showing reversed brain responses in affected individuals, potentially leading to early biomarkers for psychosis.